Blog Response Links

Dove AD comment link:

https://adrainadrainld.blogspot.ca/2017/12/dove-ad-gone-horribly-wrong-my-response.html?showComment=1520618772299#c3737305306247117289

NFL Knee comment link:

http://callmehjeremy.blogspot.ca/2017/10/nfl-kneels-200-players-take-knee.html

Racist Costume comment link:

http://mlloblog.blogspot.ca/2018/02/racist-halloween-costumes.html#comment-form

Pepsi Controversy comment link:

https://butterinabowl.blogspot.ca/2017/11/inclusive-pepsi-ad-not-so-inclusive.html?showComment=1521209104153#c1073992490063956162

Fingering Trump comment link:

https://foodandsleepdecisions.blogspot.ca/2017/12/one-action-many-consequences.html?showComment=1520861687021#c7889377154233141804

#metoo and #timesup comment link:

https://maybemiguel.blogspot.ca/2018/03/metoo-timesup.html?showComment=1521480655510#c8528927831466517468

FDT Gone Wrong???

Introduction

It's been a while since I have finished a blog and the topic that I discussed from my last blog was something that happened in the Summer when some people were starting to blast at Pepsi for their infamous ad featuring Kendall Jenner. Now moving on from there, we got Donald Trump as the 45th President and as you know it, most people do not like this man despite his poor behaviour around certain races and his way of dealing problems and many more reasons. This one lady took this too seriously and too far.

Situation

This was the picture that was taken when a photographer for
Getty Images took this on the road to when Donald Trump was
on his way to a golf course.
Source: telegraph.co.uk

I understand that some or at least most people and Americans hate Donald Trump but was this action really necessary when you see the president in person? Like sure, we would love to do that in expectations or in our dreams but in reality, we need to be cautious about what we do in front of an important person we don't like. This story starts when this woman was cycling on the road when she sees Donald Trump in a car going to a golf course. When she sees him, the woman asks Donald about the Puerto Rico Hurricane disaster, Las Vegas Massacre, her friends job security in the diplomatic corps, and many more topics. Before all of this even happened, the woman fingered at him when passing by. What the woman didn't know was that someone working for Getty Images took a picture of her passing through Trump. As soon as the image was posted on social media, it blew up and was spread throughout the internet. Surprisingly enough, her boss saw the picture of the woman on her profile and told her to delete the picture as her boss was emailed with threats. Later on Halloween, the woman was fired from her job for violating the code of conduct with that picture.

My Thoughts

First of all, just why? I mean in expectations, we would secretly do that if we hated Donald Trump so much but in reality, we need to be nice to people on the outside. It's not only normal people we need to be nice to but celebrities and well-known people like Donald Trump as well unless they act like totally rude people. Second of all, did we ever forget about thinking before doing something? Think of it as the butterfly effect; our actions can affect one another and that what ever we do, there will become different outcomes and consequences to whatever happens. For instance, if that lady on the bike did not finger at the passing vehicle with Donald Trump in it in the first place, she would have never got fired in the first place. However, since that lady on the bike saw Donald Trump passing through and fingered him, and then got photographed by some employee who works at Getty Images, she got fired because the photo was spreading worldwide. I don't know how or what else to say about this I mean, we should just keep the Trump hate to ourself. In addition, there's also the saying "if you don't have something nice to say, don't say it." Even if we are using our body language to speak, we still don't do it no matter how much you hate the person. I should just stop here because going in on Donald Trump is too much and it's getting old. I'm signing out for today. Thank you for reading this article and have a nice day everybody.

#metoo Campaign and My Thoughts About It

Oprah Winfrey won the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes this year and she presented a speech that has shocked the world because her story felt inspiring to woman; she talked about standing up towards sexual harassment that some men commit and that women should have power over them. I'm not saying it's a bad thing don't get me wrong. I appreciate women showing themselves that they matter as well.

Source: mwardcommunications.blogspot.com

#metoo Campaign and Thoughts About it

The one thing I hate about some people is how they can abuse their power too much that it can create a bunch of problems. I'm just sick of this one hashtag that makes people join in the fight. That hashtag is called #metoo. However, the #timesup campaign doesn't upset me even more because I rarely see it get discussed and plus it also talks about men sexually assaulting women; its just #metoo that gets on my nerves.

Today, I will be talking about this hashtag and my opinion on this movement. I'm going to be honest with you. I dislike this movement. However, I appreciate these people fighting for their gender right. In fact, Oprah Winfrey set the record straight at the Golden Globes and it was basically trending throughout social media and it has made people think about Oprah running for president in 2020.

But the fact that they are taking this by force too much, it's just hurting us men. You're basically trying to cease us in having freedom. Another thing I don't like about this movement is how some women have to bring up some stuff from the past that wasn't covered at that time like getting sexually assaulted or harassed in the past by some men. Like why do you have to ruin that person's life at the last second? Some of those accusations can be fake though. They're just trying to make a bandwagon to stand up for the victim that has been involved in a sexual act. This is my reason why I dislike the campaign #metoo.

Well guys, I think I need to stop right here. This blog looks controversial and such and I probably triggered every girl or woman that has read this blog. Once again, I apologize for my anger and rant towards this last blog. These females don't deserve to get hate on because of their actions. We should RESPECT women like we should respect everyone. At the end of the day, both men and women deserve to live freely. This blog is all in my point of view of how I see the #metoo movement leading onto the future. Thank you for reading my last blog and have a great day!

Costume Problems

Introduction

It's that time in October again where Halloween is coming and that means costumes, parties, and trick-or-treating are going to be effective on that day. Every year, kids, teenagers, and even adults plan to dress up as their favourite character or anything else with costumes. Some adults hold halloween parties and invite their friends to celebrate Halloween at its finest. The best part for halloween as a child is trick-or-treating. We would go to other people's houses and ask for candy by saying the words "trick or treat." Then the person that is giving away the candy gives the candy to the trick-or-treater. Afterwards, we move on to the next house. This has been a tradition for hundreds of years and it's still striving towards this day. Halloween is a holiday that kids would never forget besides Christmas.

Situation

When it comes to costumes for halloween, all of us want to dress up as someone we like whether it's a video game character, anime character, mythical creature, jobs like firefighters, doctors, etc. or something else. Some of the costumes we see can ether be appropriate, derogatory, ugly, scary, good-looking, offensive, or maybe even borderline racist. As for the famous party supplier, Party City, they do this every year where one or more costumes can offend anybody of their race, culture, or religion which is exactly what will be discussed in this blog. According to this article from thestar.com, some racist halloween costumes are still being sold throughout Party City stores across Canada. When a woman and her son were shopping for halloween costumes, they found an isle that depicted their culture (in other words, they found a section full of indigenous costumes on racks). The woman was not happy as she replied to a Party City store saying "We (indigenous people) are still here, we are not costumes." The woman has not got a word from Party City yet with that comment. Finally, the woman decided to buy her son's costume somewhere else because she felt like the store she went to disrespected her with the indigenous costumes.

Source: www.thedailybeast.comHere are some examples of some offensive costumes. The first and third costume are depicting Mexicans and that they wear sombreros and ride donkeys. The second and fourth costume depicts Native Americans and how they wear that type of clothing in their culture. The fifth costume is representing some culture but it's undetermined.

My Thoughts

To me, this doesn't look like a very big deal to me as I would usually avoid these types of costumes because if I bought it and wore it on Halloween and someone posted a picture of me wearing a costume like that on the internet, I would get hate comments saying that I'm being offensive to their culture and making their culture look bad or something similar to that. And then I would need to make apology and regret posts stating that what I wore was wrong and offensive and that I shouldn't have worn that costume in the first place. All of this is just my opinion. I mean if I saw a costume that depicted Filipinos and our culture, I would have mixed thoughts about it whether I wouldn't mind or care about it too much or take it seriously and report it to the store owner/manager. Likely wise, I think Party City stores should stop selling these types of costumes like indigenous clothing and more offensive costumes. If people feel so offended by racist costumes or can't take those costumes seriously, then might as well pull them off shelves so that people don't need to hate on party supply/costume stores like Party City. Like mentioned before, I wouldn't take this kind of stuff too seriously. At the end of the day, we are who we are in our costumes that we are wearing on Halloween; we just need to forget about all the negativity that some costume stores are giving us and enjoy the rest of our day in general. In other words, let's just have a good day and not bring up any bad vibes with us throughout our day so that everyone can be happy.

Responding to Racist Dove Ad

Situation

On October 9th, 2017, an advertisement from the soap company, Dove has surfaced on the internet which was spreading around Facebook. The advertisement was showing off its new cleanser in action and several women with different skin tones were in that commercial. The advertisement was not very pleasant to most people. There was one part of the dove advertisement that has got people furious and thinking if Dove was being racist; A black woman was transitioning into a white woman when taking her shirt off. People got upset when they saw that specific part of the ad in there.

Source: www.thealternativedaily.com
This was the specific clip of the Dove ad which sparked a lot of controversy starting on facebook and then all over other social media platforms and news.

In an article from Huffington Post, the Black model in the advertisement, Lola Ogunyemi addressed the situation by stating "I am not a victim; I am strong, I am beautiful, and I will not be erased." Additionally, Lola states that the reason why she wanted to be in this dove advertisement is because she wanted to represent a woman of colour for all around the world and the campaign's objective inspired her to join this advertisement.

Source: www.classic105.com
Lola Ogunyemi, the model pictured above was the one that was in the Dove advertisement and responded to the backlash Dove has got for its racist appealing ad.

My Response

It is so interesting how one single commercial can cause a lot of controversy. This is because of the fact that some companies/brands might not know if the advertisement would be appropriate and or offend a single person, race, or religion. When it comes to advertising products or PSAs, we need to be cautious about who is being targeted whether its young children, teenagers, adults, seniors, etc. We need to make sure that our message/campaign can go through safely and have no problems what so ever without having to offend anyone that is affected by this. As for Dove, they messed up on this part. Dove didn't realize how wrong this decision in the ad would be where the black woman transitions into a white woman. This kind of situation was also used back in the old days when they would advertise soaping products. The controversy of that situation was not too big of a deal compared to now. All I got to say is to be careful of what you are advertising and think about the people around you when making an advertisement so that they can think that your message/campaign would be appropriate to them and that it wouldn't offend anybody. That way, we can get through and be happy of what the advertisement is telling us and that we can get along with everyone in the world. This concludes my response to the Dove ad controversy.

Source: www.thoughtcatalog.com
The company, Pears' Soap has used this kind of ad marketing before and it had the same backlash like the Dove ad in terms of racism except that the black boy that is being cleaned by the white boy turns white as seen in the second picture frame.

Pepsi for Police Brutality? (WARNING: Some People can or will be triggered when they read this blog so please read at your own risk)

Introduction

It has been a few months since an ad campaign from a company would cause a bunch of controversy. Like did marketers/brands forget about which type of people they are targeting in their ads? Did they forget to think about the people around them and how they would react to this kind of stuff? They need to be cautious about not offending any group of people otherwise the message of the advertisement would be going in the wrong direction. I have mentioned a bunch of things that brands, companies and marketers should do and not do when it comes to advertising back in my Dove Ad response blog; tips like thinking about the people around you and how they will think about the ad is one of those tips that I mentioned in my blog and that advertisers should be aware of. You might not know if your ad will give away a positive or negative response depending on the audience you're targeting for your ads. For the Dove ad situation, the issue of that ad was "racism" despite the transition where a black woman transforms into a white woman after using the product shown in the Dove ad. In this blog, we will be covering the infamous police brutality Pepsi ad which was made back in Summer 2017.

Situation

This was the scene that started it all to where all this controversy became a trend worldwide.
Source: newyorker.com

With all the police brutality happening around at that time or at least until now, a famous model by the name of Kendall Jenner decided to try and bring justice in police brutality by showcasing it in an ad sponsored by the soda brand, Pepsi. As seen in the advertisement, a peaceful protest was ongoing between a group of people and the police department. Kendall was found in the crowds and decided to give a police officer a can of Pepsi. The officer accepts her offer and the crowds started cheering and clapping for her. When social media users saw this advertisement from Pepsi, they took it upon their own hands and analyzed it stating that Pepsi saw the work Black Lives Matter have been working on and that Pepsi appreciated them for their work. However, with the use of Kendall Jenner in the ad, social media users thought that it made the protesting group not important in any case scenario or not matter at all. This was when some of social media were triggered by this advertisement and started controversy with the Pepsi ad.

My Response

This tweet about the Pepsi Commercial came from Martin Luther King Jr.'s
daughter where she tweets "If only Daddy (MLK Jr.) would have known about
the power of Pepsi." with a picture of MLK in contact with a cop.
Source: mirror.co.uk

I don't know what's even worse; Social media or the way Pepsi organized this ad. I mean if you want to address this advertisement with inspiration from Black Lives Matter, it needs proof to support your opinion. This kind of proof that Pepsi gave to us felt like a joke to Black Lives Matter like they made it look like Black Lives didn't even matter at all in this worse case scenario. If I was the one to put this commercial together, I would use the black race for the group instead of other races and then use a famous black celebrity to give the officer a Pepsi. However this commercial would be more of a Black Lives Matter ad campaign more than a Pepsi commercial. Additionally, it would make sense to use the black race in this commercial because it wouldn't be an inspirational Black Lives Matter commercial if there is no blacks leading the protest. Like c'mon Pepsi. I would rather worry about the treatment Black Lives Matter has endured than Kendall Jenner getting backlashed for the commercial (no offence to Kendall). In my opinion, if Pepsi didn't choose Kendall Jenner as the main character in the commercial, this controversy wouldn't happen in the first place. But social media had to do it to Kendall Jenner. On the social media side of this commercial, I would have to agree with them on this but at the same time not because this doesn't affect me as much as it affects Black Lives Matter and Pepsi. In my opinion, social media blames Pepsi for this ad more than Kendall Jenner. When Kendall heard the news about the backlash Pepsi got from social media, she was heartbroken because this was what Pepsi paid her to do in this commercial and that she thought the message would go through positively but instead went negatively. I will end this discussion right here so until then, see you in the next blog!

The Infamous NFL Kneel

Situation

Racism is becoming a very strong topic that is being discussed throughout the world especially the United States of America. This is mainly because the 45th American president, Donald Trump is being disliked for being a racist. No matter what the racist situation is, the white supremacy is always on his back. Over the past few weeks, there has been a on-going battle between Donald Trump and the National Football League (NFL) where kneeling down for the national anthem is such a huge disrespect for the country according to Donald Trump. For African-American athletes and most African-American people in general, they kneel down for the national anthem because of the police brutality, racial injustice, and anti-black racism that blacks are being dealt with for a long time and that they want to do something about it and change that negativity into positivity. Ever since the start of his presidency, Trump still doesn't think nor care about the way blacks have been treated lately by the police and everyone that is against the black community which is why he is against this "kneeling situation" in the NFL.

Source: mwardcommunications.blogspot.com

Colin Kaepernick, the NFL athlete pictured above, started the 'kneel towards the national anthem' trend and then a fellow teammate of his kneeled with him as well.

My Reaction

To be honest, I am not very surprised at Donald Trump for doing his usual racist doings and being his racist self. However, I am surprised that kneeling towards the national anthem is such a big deal and disrespect towards Donald Trump and "his" country. I mean, I never expected this to come out on national TV or seen live. I could see what some of these athletes are doing look right like fighting for your rights is something positive to do towards someone that is against your rights/race. They're trying to send a message to the world that skin colour doesn't matter, we should all be treated fairly, equally and peacefully. If I was an NFL player and I wanted to fight for my right or my race, I would take a knee for the national anthem. Even if Trump wouldn't appreciate it, I want to show that every race matters whether my skin is black, white, yellow, or brown; I want to feel welcomed in my country and the whole world as well. 

Source: www.theguardian.com

When this picture surfaced on twitter, Donald Trump tweeted out this:

"Two dozen NFL players continue to kneel during the National Anthem, showing total disrespect to our Flag and Country. No leadership in the NFL!"

In terms of Donald Trump in this situation, of course I'd expect Donald Trump for being such a poor supporter towards the black community as he is being the "villain" in that community in my opinion. I think Donald Trump should stay away from blacks at all cost and should not interfere with them at all if he will act racist towards them. There are much worse problems to deal with like the people in Puerto Rico that suffered a hurricane in their country than just two football athletes kneeling down for the national anthem. Additionally, I don't think Donald Trump should corporate with every sports leagues at all because it can possibly turn into a war/riot between sports and politics. The best decision for Donald Trump in my opinion is to stay away from sporting leagues and focus on politics or at least his duties. It will bring out the best for the NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB, the soccer league, and other sports leagues. To conclude my reaction to this, Donald Trump shouldn't be worthy of observing and incorporating with the NFL or any other sporting league at all. Donald Trump needs to open his eyes and realize how much of a horrible man he is when he is interacting with the blacks and that he should let them be who they are and not someone else. I am very sick and tired of Donald Trump trying to be the underdog and bring justice to America when he is actually making things in his country worse than it ever was before. Don't let Donald Trump and the NFL distract you from the fact that some people that suffered from natural disasters are still in need of help and support from other countries. America need to make their country truly great again; They need to start getting their heads out of the freezer and start doing something about the injustice that is occurring in America. This concludes my reaction towards Donald Trump and the NFL.